Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq

Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq is a Shia Islamist militant group that was founded in July 2006 as the largest of the Iran-funded Special Groups in Iraq during the Iraq War. It claimed responsibility for 6,000 attacks against the United States and MNF-I forces, with its leader Qais al-Khazali being a former hardliner leader of the Mahdi Army. The Quds Force funded and trained its fighters, and in March 2007 they had 3,000 fighters. The group later formed one of the Popular Mobilization Forces' largest components, fighting both in the Iraqi Civil War against the Islamic State and in the Syrian Civil War against the Syrian Opposition alongside the Syrian Arab Republic.